PD> In the meantime I am again pulling in TRAPDOOR from Zone 2 (The Mad
 PD> House itself now), and will arrange for the echo to travel up the N711
 PD> backbone link to Dave Hatch's system, and thus the rest of the
 PD> country.

 AM>   YAHOO!  :)

 AM>   When, huh? huh?  When?  :)

Bad news, there seems to be a hell of a problem getting the N711 link up
and running, thanks to apathy on the part of at least one major uplink (who
I won't name here).

But it's been a bit of a moot point anyway, really.  Since August, I have
polled the Mad House on 11 occasions, and have only received mail back
twice.  And even then, a mere 15 messages, quite a few of them the monthly
auto-posts of echo rules and FAQ, etc.  Last time I got ANYTHING back was
14 Sep, and it wasn't much:

 = 14-Sep-96 23:57:46  Protocol: EMSI/Hydra
 | 14-Sep-96 23:57:48  Sending 5fd64ad5.SA0 (590 bytes)
 | 14-Sep-96 23:57:49  Receiving 5fd1e2bb.TH0 (651 bytes)
 | 14-Sep-96 23:57:53  Recv: Took 0:00, Cps: 1085, Efficiency: 64%
 | 14-Sep-96 23:57:54  Send: Took 0:03, Cps: 163, Efficiency: 9%
 ! 14-Sep-96 23:57:54  Deleting 2.310.6.0.FLO
 = 14-Sep-96 23:58:00  Session connect time 0:20, cost 0.51

Since then, 5 calls all with nothing but the EMSI packets exchanged :-(

Depressing....

  Mea Culpa,
 Peter Deane

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